Mohali, March 14 — Phase-1 police have registered three FIRs against the owner and staff of an immigration firm for allegedly duping three individuals of ₹30.65 lakh by falsely promising to send them abroad.
One case involves Rakesh Rikhi, owner of Rudraksh Group Overseas, along with staff members Gurpreet Singh, Amit Sharma, Aditya, and Gaurav Kumar.
The FIR was lodged based on a complaint by Varinderpal Singh from Jahangirpuri, New Delhi, who accused them of taking ₹16.7 lakh to send his daughters, Navneet Kumar and Karishma, overseas. “They neither fulfilled their promise nor returned the money,” Singh told police.
In another instance, Rikhi and Baljit Singh were booked for allegedly defrauding Omesh Tripathi, a resident of Uttarakhand, of ₹2.45 lakh. Tripathi had lodged a complaint last year, claiming he was deceived in a similar manner.
The third case involves Rikhi, Anureet, and Rakhi, who allegedly took ₹11.5 lakh from Bhushan Singla of Sangrur but failed to fulfill their commitment.
Rikhi is already in police custody in connection with multiple cheating cases. All accused have been booked under Sections 406 (criminal breach of trust), 420 (cheating), and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code, along with relevant sections of the Immigration Act.
